Literay Fact Literay Fact 2541-8297 2542-2421 IWL RAS https://www.doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2018-10-236-252 Articles “Notes on Gondla” by Nikolay Gumilyov Veronika В. Zuseva-Özkan editor@litfact.ru 2017 Nikolay Gumilyov Gondla drama “historical pictures” Russian literature of the beginning of the 20th century Copyright © 2026, IWL RAS 2026 Publication of Gumilyov’s notes on his dramatic poem “Gondla” allows Gumilyov scholars to significantly refine dominant assumptions about this play and its hero. The notes concern the play’s sources, characters and images, conflict, plot and motifs, principles of its theatrical production. Comparing the original conception of the play as it occurs in the notes and the completed work demonstrates a considerable gap between them (and, in some points, even direct contradictions) which provides material for interesting conclusions. These notes are also one of the manifestations of Gumilyov’ participation in the project of “historical pictures” of “World Literature” (“Vsemirnaya Literatura”) publishing house. 1. Chukovskii K.I. Dnevnik. 1901–1921 [Journal. 1901–1921], predisl. V. Kaverina, komment. E. Chukovsko. In: Chukovskii K.I. Sobranie sochinenii: v 15 t. [Collected Works: in 15 vol.] Vol. 11. 2-e izd. Moscow, Agentstvo FTM Ltd Publ., 2013. pp. 14–374. (In Russ.) 2. Ivanova E.V. Aleksandr Blok: Poslednie gody zhizni [Aleksandr Blok: Last Years]. Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Rostok Publ., 2012. 604 p. (In Russ.) 3. Irlandskie sagi [Irish Sagas], per., pred, vstup. st. i komment. A.A. Smirnova. 2-e izd., ispr. Moscow, Leningrad, Academia Publ., 1933. 368 p. (In Russ.) 4. Shcherbakov R.L. Kommentarii [Commentaries]. In: Gumilev N.S. Sochineniia: v 3 t. [Works: in 3 vol.]. Moscow, Khudozh. lit. Publ., 1991. Vol. 2: Dramy. Rasskazy, sost., podgot. teksta, primech. R.L. Shcherbakova. pp. 393–477. (In Russ.) 5. Rusinko E. Rewriting Ibsen in Russia: Gumilyov’s dramatic poem “Gondla”. In: The European Foundations of Russian Modernism. Studies in Slavic Language and Literature, vol. 7. Studies in Russian and German, vol. 4, 1991, pp. 189–218.